Why Is Improvising Important? - 18th October 2018 (Evan Parker)

The London Improvisers Orchestra is now 20 years old. LIO member and conductor Caroline Kraabel speaks to people who improvise in music, visual art, dance, politics and religion, as well as in life. This week’s guest is the highly innovative and influential improvising saxophonist Evan Parker: "To improvise freely means you're free to use material that you know very well indeed and you're also free to invent and take risks, to do stuff you're not quite in control of, just to see where it leads."